Why Philosophy of Biology? | Episode 2301 | Closer To Truth
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- Philosophy of biology has two sides: the process of science and the content of biology. We address key questions. What is the nature of life? How does evolution work and what are its challenges? How to consider race, sex/gender, cognition, culture, morality, healthcare, religion, alien life and alien intelligences.
Featuring interviews with Michael Ruse, Elliot Sober, Elisabeth Lloyd, Peter Godfrey-Smith, John Dupré, Paul Griffiths, Richard Dawkins, Josh Swamidass, Quayshawn Nigel Julian Spencer, Denis Noble, Alexander Rosenberg, Samir Okasha, Massimo Pigliucci, Alan Love, and Philip Kitcher.
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As a mycologist and ecologist, I recommend covering:
1. Mycelial networks as “the internet of a forest” and similarities to neural networks. Interconnectedness of life. Gaia Hypothesis.
2. Plant behavior considered on longer time scales. How plants sense, react, and communicate. Do new findings on plant communication and other behaviors raise bioethics considerations?
4. Bioethics. Big topic with many branches. Animal treatment in studies, use of modified crops, livestock cloning, etc. AI in healthcare, gene editing treatments, bioprinting, RNA based vaccines, many others.
5. Taxonomic concepts; human attempts to categorize life. Updating taxonomy based on phylogenic studies. How new understandings of evolutionary history affect how we see life and our place in it.
6. Ethical considerations on how we interact with the natural world. Religious approaches to stewardship of the biosphere. Jainism.
Edit - oops, after visiting the website, now I see you are covering or have covered many of these topics.
Time scale is important. Our perception of time, and even our concepts around time, might limit our understanding of behsvior in vastly different species like plants and fungi.
Robert!!! I’ve been watching all the closet to truth videos for months now!!! You got me obsessed with the topic of consciousness and other big life changing questions… thank you for everything!!
In this new season, your team REALLY NEEDS TO DROP THE MUSIC VOLUME WHEN YOU ARE SPEAKING! It’s been a problem for some time now… (FYI I view on iPhone)
We appreciate your feedback. Please try listening on an iPhone or other smartphone and see if the sections with music sound better? What device are your listening on? There may be some strange compatibility issue with Macbooks for the sections with music, while interview sections audio are fine. Again, please listening on a smartphone / iPhone and please let us know. Thanks for your interest and support. Robert
Yeah lower the music bob
You got it, Dan. Did you listen on your iPhone/smartphone?
@@robertlawrencekuhn4483hmm I don’t see my earlier reply. I have viewed all your content via iPhone. I can’t say enough good things about this series BTW.
I am listening on an iPhone with earbuds and the music is uncomfortably loud over the vocals. Otherwise thank you for the great content and explorations!
Thank you and your team for putting this content out! 👏 🤙
Thank you for watching 💫
A good example of a philosopher addressing taxonomic problems is Barry Smith, he created a biomedical ontology based on his basic formal ontology (BFO) to address problems of big data in this modern world of data driven science and engineering. Philosophers should focus some of their efforts on things like this, they can really provide value add
Thank you Robert Lawrence Kuhn and all who work to create Closer to Truth. Was pleased to see RLK strolling through the bamboo grove, one of my favorites in the plant kingdom. It reminded me of Carl Jung's memoir: 'life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome...".
first and foremost, trully and sincerely happy that Dr. Robert Lawrence Kuhn journey continues, so, in a personal sense, i dont feel alone in my own pursuit of understanding the hows and even whys, specially about consciousness, innerself, sheer existence. because all I know its, I exist and i am real. this fourth pilar it is linked to that, same as the origin and nature of the universe and all the laws and branches of science that tries to explain why and how there's not nothing and why and how and what it means to be conscious. I am eager to continue the journey guided by Closer to truth, because every hint of an explanation will open the door of a new question so this quest it's most likely one for a lifetime, mine for sure. You'd probably never know how much your own quest means for others. Thank you Dr Kuhn.
Great stuff! Excited to see more. Thought volume was fine btw. Think people are referring to when talking is purposefully cut off with music during transitions…
Bravo don't hold any punches Closer To Truth remember.
Great subject for myself biology, evolution, consciousness, cohesion metaphysics 🤔👌👀
I had to look up "cohesion metaphysics." I didn't find any exact hits but did read a bit about "coherence theory of truth." The site I was reading seemed to be taking a long and scenic journey with no actual destination so I gave up after a few pages of circling the same block over and over.
But I do look forward to this fourth pillar as I've had a lifelong fascination with biology.
@@mikel5582
Coherence theory is opposed to classical foundationalism.
The idea is how to justify knowledge, among other things.
In coherence theory, one’s worldview would have all sorts of transcendental categories they use - logic, numbers, the self, identity over time, the external world, universals, this sort of thing. So how do your justification of these things cohere with each other, with your life, with your view of reality, etc?
Is it consistent and coherent?
For instance, one might think themselves to be a “skeptic” for instance perhaps they’re an atheist. Maybe they demand a high level of evidence to believe. Wait a minute, how do you justify logic? What evidence? And so forth? Is your worldview coherent?
See?
Classical foundationalism will base their worldview on fundamental axiomatic type beliefs and build up from there.
Going to be real mind trip with this one 🤙😁🤔.
Do an episode about photosynthesis amd the quantum mechanics required for a proton to actually make it to the cloroplasta. Super interesting topic that blew my mind, id love to hear someone smarter than my self add way more depth to the topic so i can learn more
@15:08 Spencer was perfect timing after the high priest of atheism Dawkins. Spencer pointed out kuhns paradigmatic ideas about principles and definitions of terms. So many people take these paradigmatic terms as if they’re “facts”, like proven theories.
Example from Spencer, “species”
As you go from cosmology to astronomy to physics or to chemistry to organic chemistry to cellular biology to evolutionary biology to human evolution and the human mind...The changes are on complexity but the complexity is more about emphasis on distinct existence and variety.
Nobody from Duke University Center for the Philosophy of Biology? No Bob Brandon?
The degree of free will a human can implement is related to that human's ability to sense and control their reactions to their own neurochemical activity
Do genes, defined as discrete heritable units, really exist?
The music level is way too high..
It's RLK! 😎👍👍
Some are metabolic processes in the domain of biology, which are a given, and some are expressive acts that function as symbols in the domain of agreed living rules, that is, the culture that is being constructed. Welcome to the posthuman age, where social time is reversible...
Biology and the DNA design is the greatest proof of intelligent design by a Higher power/God..
Then who designed God?
Specifically what about DNA suggests an intelligent designer?
@@mikel5582 really??...
@@symbiosisai God's Father
@@mtshasta4195 In other words, you really don't know much about DNA and assume that people with legitimate expertise in molecular and structural biology won't call you out. I'll change my opinion on that if you provide even one compelling reason that DNA, as a molecule, suggests intelligent design.
Wishful thinking is not a substitute for actual evidence.
how did functionality of biological structures originate... can it really be a product of chance alone 🤔
No , it cant،، ،there must be supreme power ,, that power is god allah
@@user-nh4cd8qn5fthis entire episode was very interesting, especially around15:34, 17:09, and 18:57...
@@r2c3 everything that make you ponder is good,, i always come back to this high style professional program although my objections to it
Not chance alone. Chance combined with selective pressure. Also, observed functionality in biological structures didn't arise in one fell swoop; they evolved through incremental changes that provided an advantage to the ecological fitness of the species.
@@mikel5582yes, it's not entirely clear how ir originated.. many questions about life's origin still remain a mystery...
No one mentioned E.O. Wilson from Harvard who was influential in the new field of Sociobiology. Sociobiology is the study of the biological basis of social behavior in animals and humans.
Hive mind behavior and emergent intelligence are two other useful topics related to E.O. Wilson.
Sociobiology is like anti-philosophy. And it's not taken that seriously these days.
@@zombiesingularity Really, E.O. Wilson is great. Have you ever tried reading him? I think Sociobiology is great. What specifically do they have wrong?
@@DCDevTanelorn Wilson is great and I don't understand why anyone would think otherwise.
#57😎
I think your fourth pillar (in addition to cosmos, consciousness, and God) should be "life." Defining what constitutes "life" should be a fundamental pursuit of the philosophy of biology. (Personally, I think there is an inextricable relationship between consciousness and life.)
That is our fourth pillar 💫 You can check out all the videos in this category here, with many more to come soon: closertotruth.com/topic/life/
@@CloserToTruthTV Okay, I stand corrected. I watched the video above entitled "Why the Philosophy of Biology?" and none of your guest speakers seemed to address what I would think should have been the most fundamental question of that discipline, namely, what is life. So, I was somewhat confused and disappointed. I apologize for my misunderstanding. Carry on and keep up the good work.
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Uh oh.. "sex and gender"? Red flag.
Huh? Why?
@@someonesomeone25 Finding out the world isn't easily compartmentalized into simple black and white scares him.
You do realize that biological sex and gender are not the same thing right? 🤦
Why so many creationists in the comments?
If they're legitimately curious and honestly seeking knowledge, I say welcome. I suspect getting closer to truth is actually quite a scary propsition so a natural reaction is aggressive denial.
@@mikel5582most of the religious comments are just making statements, reiterating their dogma, not expressing curiosity.
@@DCDevTanelorn Yeah, I know. That's sort of my point. The idea that what they've learned as dogma not only is not backed up by evidence but is also often illogical is scary. The response to that feeling of fear is to assertively dig in their heels in hopes of driving away any self-doubts about said dogma. Noone who truly believes in an omniscient God would waste their time and energy arguing with mortals; they would be blissful in their assurance that God is watching over them.
Richard Dawkins will tell you all you need to know about evolution..
I'm sure you meant Richard Dawkins, not Richard Dawson. Richard Dawson could tell you all about Family Feud. 😂😂😂
I love Richard Dawkins (Richard Dawson too 😜), but no one person can tell us everything we might want to know about the wide range of subjects relevant to evolution.
What? There is a lot more than Dawkins
Biology points to god allah, life cannot come from nowhere
Then how did Allah come out of nowhere?
Please provide references to the relevant papers, experiments, observations, or at least rationale that support your conclusion.
@@mikel5582 ذَٰلِكُمُ اللَّهُ رَبُّكُمْ ۖ لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ ۖ خَالِقُ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ فَاعْبُدُوهُ ۚ وَهُوَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ وَكِيلٌ
102That is Allah, your Lord; there is no deity except Him, the Creator of all things, so worship Him. And He is Disposer of all things.
@@symbiosisai ذَٰلِكُمُ اللَّهُ رَبُّكُمْ ۖ لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ ۖ خَالِقُ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ فَاعْبُدُوهُ ۚ وَهُوَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ وَكِيلٌ 102
That is Allah, your Lord; there is no deity except Him, the Creator of all things, so worship Him. And He is Disposer of all things.
@@user-nh4cd8qn5f Bullshit
..and the fact that you keep asking this question to no end exposes the truth that you have been suffering from severe guilt being tortured by your Godless Conscience...
..have faith in a loving God to suffer no more so to live in peace ...
I think he needs meditate and try those empirical and transcendental experiences, then he will have a personal proof that will give him faith (like explains Federico Faggin or Bernard Carr), real faith in the Creator... It happened to me, I was like him, but, after meditate a lot, I had some transcendental experiences, now I completely believe.
Lol
Let the scientists carry their research. Let them not have blind faith. Had there not been non stop research , science and technology would not have evolved so much.
God never came up in biology class
If God exists, and God is omnipresent, how can anybody possibly have a Godless conscience? I suspect God is either a goldbricker or made some huge exaggerations in His resume. Either way, I'm reporting him to HR.
Horrible edits and interviews, says nothing of significance in the first 10 minutes...